11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# File system configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "File systems" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 71da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Second extended fs support" 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_XATTR 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 extended attributes" 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 32b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT2_FS_SECURITY 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext2 Security Labels" 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext2 filesystem. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 546d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig EXT2_FS_XIP 556d79125bSCarsten Otte bool "Ext2 execute in place support" 566d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS 576d79125bSCarsten Otte help 586d79125bSCarsten Otte Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you 596d79125bSCarsten Otte enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are 606d79125bSCarsten Otte capable of this feature without using the page cache. 616d79125bSCarsten Otte 626d79125bSCarsten Otte If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this, 636d79125bSCarsten Otte or if unsure, say N. 646d79125bSCarsten Otte 656d79125bSCarsten Otteconfig FS_XIP 666d79125bSCarsten Otte# execute in place 676d79125bSCarsten Otte bool 686d79125bSCarsten Otte depends on EXT2_FS_XIP 696d79125bSCarsten Otte default y 706d79125bSCarsten Otte 711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support" 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds The journaling code included in this driver means you do not have 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds is consistent without the need for a lengthy check. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds system. 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_XATTR 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 extended attributes" 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3. 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists" 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 118b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXT3_FS_SECURITY 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ext3 Security Labels" 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ext3 filesystem. 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 1381da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 1391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD 1411da177e4SLinus Torvalds# CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are 1421da177e4SLinus Torvalds# other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS 1431da177e4SLinus Torvalds# dep_tristate ' Journal Block Device support (JBD for ext3)' CONFIG_JBD $CONFIG_EXT3_FS 1441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds default EXT3_FS 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a generic journaling layer for block devices. It is 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently used by the ext3 file system, but it could also be used to 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds add journal support to other file systems or block devices such as 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds RAID or LVM. 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 file system, you need to say Y here. If 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds you are not using ext3 then you will probably want to say N. 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 into the kernel, you cannot 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile this code as a module. 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JBD_DEBUG 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support" 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JBD 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help track down any problems you are having. By default the 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output will be turned off. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between 1711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated. To turn debugging off again, do 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug". 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_MBCACHE 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3) 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Reiserfs support" 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tree. Uses journaling. 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds architectural foundations. 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more easily extended to have features currently found in 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds make source code open.'' 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. 2041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS. 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_CHECK 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode" 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds everyone should say N. 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_PROC_INFO 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also 2291da177e4SLinus Torvalds increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount. 2301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning 2311da177e4SLinus Torvalds reiserfs or tracing problems should say N. 2321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS extended attributes" 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 246b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig REISERFS_FS_SECURITY 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ReiserFS Security Labels" 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the ReiserFS filesystem. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_FS 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "JFS filesystem support" 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N. 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_POSIX_ACL 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists" 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 280b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme. 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_SECURITY 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS Security Labels" 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the jfs filesystem. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_DEBUG 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS debugging" 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds results in very little overhead. 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFS_STATISTICS 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFS statistics" 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFS_FS 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FS_POSIX_ACL 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs) 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds# NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does). 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Never use this symbol for ifdefs. 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 325b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher default n 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3271da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/xfs/Kconfig" 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MINIX_FS 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Minix fs support" 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux, 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs. 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N. 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module. 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROMFS_FS 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ROM file system support" 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds other read-only media as well. Read 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details. 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds module. 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3620eeca283SRobert Loveconfig INOTIFY 3630eeca283SRobert Love bool "Inotify file change notification support" 3640eeca283SRobert Love default y 3650eeca283SRobert Love ---help--- 366*3de11748SRobert Love Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system 367*3de11748SRobert Love calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a 3680eeca283SRobert Love replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in 3690eeca283SRobert Love dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring 370*3de11748SRobert Love of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features 371*3de11748SRobert Love include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount 372*3de11748SRobert Love notification. 373*3de11748SRobert Love 374*3de11748SRobert Love For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt 3750eeca283SRobert Love 3760eeca283SRobert Love If unsure, say Y. 3770eeca283SRobert Love 3781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTA 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Quota support" 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds shutdown. You need additional software in order to use quota support 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds (you can download sources from 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.sf.net/projects/linuxquota/>). For further details, read 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds multi user systems. If unsure, say N. 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V1 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Old quota format support" 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds format say Y here. 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QFMT_V2 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Quota format v2 support" 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QUOTA 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds need this functionality say Y here. Note that you will need recent 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds quota utilities (>= 3.01) for new quota format with this kernel. 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QUOTACTL 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DNOTIFY 4151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds dnotify. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Because of this, if unsure, say Y. 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS_FS 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter support" 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support", 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs. 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here. 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUTOFS4_FS 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)" 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon. 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below. 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules configuration file. 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds N here. 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems" 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISO9660_FS 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support" 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other 4751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO, 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N. 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called isofs. 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JOLIET 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds characters of almost all languages of the world; see 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux. 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Transparent decompression extension" 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ISO9660_FS 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds able to read such compressed CD-ROMs. 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZISOFS_FS 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ZISOFS 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default ISO9660_FS 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_FS 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UDF file system support" 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD. 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>. 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called udf. 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UDF_NLS 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y) 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems" 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_FS 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 5411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in 5521da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to make use of it. 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds order to do that. 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar"). 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5641da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure, 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 5721da177e4SLinus Torvalds fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you 5731da177e4SLinus Torvalds cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel 5741da177e4SLinus Torvalds -- they will have to be modules as well. 5751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MSDOS_FS 5771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MSDOS fs support" 5781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 5791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless 5811da177e4SLinus Torvalds they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under 5821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the 5831da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 5841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you 5861da177e4SLinus Torvalds intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds other Unix files. 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT. 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure, 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support" 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called msdos. 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VFAT_FS 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support" 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FAT_FS 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs from the mtools package. 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say Y. 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds vfat. 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Default codepage for FAT" 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 437 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems. 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option. 6251da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default iocharset for FAT" 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VFAT_FS 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "iso8859-1" 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Set this to the default input/output character set you'd 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems. 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems. 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here. 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information. 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_FS 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NTFS file system support" 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds safe, write support available. For write support you must also 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y to "NTFS write support" below. 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are also a number of user-space tools available, called 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds from the project web site. 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ntfs. 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_DEBUG 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS debugging support" 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds slowdown of the system. 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NTFS_RW 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NTFS write support" 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NTFS_FS 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds be written to. 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7021da177e4SLinus Torvalds While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds so far not received a single report where the driver would have 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds is not safe. 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds need its own partition. For more information see 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is perfectly safe to say N here. 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Pseudo filesystems" 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_FS 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc file system support" 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a virtual file system providing information about the status 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the program less: you need to use more or cat. 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention -- 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about your system gathered from the /proc file system. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted, 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy. 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job. 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds The /proc file system is explained in the file 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds ("man 5 proc"). 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here. 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PROC_KCORE 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS && MMU 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 756666bfddbSVivek Goyalconfig PROC_VMCORE 757666bfddbSVivek Goyal bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 758666bfddbSVivek Goyal depends on PROC_FS && EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP 759666bfddbSVivek Goyal help 760666bfddbSVivek Goyal Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. 761666bfddbSVivek Goyal 7621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSFS 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds relationships to one another. 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds and other kernel subsystems. 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate. 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds delegating policy decisions, like persistantly naming devices. 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For 7821da177e4SLinus Torvalds example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space. 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/dev/pts Extended Attributes" 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on UNIX98_PTYS 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEVPTS_FS_SECURITY 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "/dev/pts Security Labels" 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEVPTS_FS_XATTR 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the /dev/pts filesystem. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)" 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds lost. 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details. 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS_XATTR 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "tmpfs Extended Attributes" 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on TMPFS 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 8291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMPFS_SECURITY 8311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "tmpfs Security Labels" 8321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on TMPFS_XATTR 8331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Security labels support alternative access control models 8351da177e4SLinus Torvalds implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option 8361da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables an extended attribute handler for file security 8371da177e4SLinus Torvalds labels in the tmpfs filesystem. 8381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are not using a security module that requires using 8391da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes for file security labels, say N. 8401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLBFS 8421da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HugeTLB file system support" 8431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || X86_64 || BROKEN 8441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HUGETLB_PAGE 8461da177e4SLinus Torvalds def_bool HUGETLBFS 8471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RAMFS 8491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 8501da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows 8531da177e4SLinus Torvalds read and write access. 8541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8551da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If 8561da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use 8571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tmpfs. 8581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8601da177e4SLinus Torvalds ramfs. 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Miscellaneous filesystems" 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below. 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e., 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details. 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds called adfs. 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADFS_FS_RW 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" 8881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADFS_FS 8891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on 8911da177e4SLinus Torvalds hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental 8921da177e4SLinus Torvalds codes, so if you're unsure, say N. 8931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFFS_FS 8951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 8961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 8971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8981da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard 8991da177e4SLinus Torvalds disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y 9001da177e4SLinus Torvalds if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga 9011da177e4SLinus Torvalds FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be 9021da177e4SLinus Torvalds read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy 9031da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in 9041da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt> 9051da177e4SLinus Torvalds and <file:fs/affs/Changes>. 9061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9071da177e4SLinus Torvalds With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd 9081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator 9091da177e4SLinus Torvalds (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>). 9101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop 9111da177e4SLinus Torvalds device support", above. 9121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9131da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 9141da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called affs. If unsure, say N. 9151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFS_FS 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds options. 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 9261da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hfs. 9271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HFSPLUS_FS 9291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support" 9301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 9311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS_UTF8 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds style features such as file ownership and permissions. 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_FS 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds on files and directories, and database-like indeces on selected 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds extremly large volumes and files. 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of the NLS (native language support) options below. 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds called befs. 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BEFS_DEBUG 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Debug BeFS" 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BEFS_FS 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds debugging output from the driver. 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BFS_FS 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system is contained in the file 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>. 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what this is about, say N. 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EFS_FS 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however). 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>. 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called efs. 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support" 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>). 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_FS_VERBOSE 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)" 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages. 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS_PROC_FS 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem" 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory. 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support" 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MTD 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices. 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>. 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_FS_DEBUG 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)" 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation, 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2. 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring. 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10582f82ce1eSAndrew Victorconfig JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER 10592f82ce1eSAndrew Victor bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support" 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 10612f82ce1eSAndrew Victor default y 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10632f82ce1eSAndrew Victor This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2. 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10652f82ce1eSAndrew Victor This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following 10662f82ce1eSAndrew Victor types of flash devices: 10672f82ce1eSAndrew Victor - NAND flash 10682f82ce1eSAndrew Victor - NOR flash with transparent ECC 10692f82ce1eSAndrew Victor - DataFlash 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2" 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems, 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel. 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'. 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_ZLIB 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds further information. 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' if unsure. 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RTIME 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure. 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_RUBIN 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure. 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11121da177e4SLinus Torvaldschoice 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on JFFS2_FS 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure. 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_NONE 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "no compression" 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Uses no compression. 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "priority" 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds successful one. 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds result. 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendchoice 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CRAMFS 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)" 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only, 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps. 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information. 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds directory /) cannot be compiled as a module. 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VXFS_FS 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)" 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Currently only readonly access is supported. 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds the actual driver. 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPFS_FS 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support" 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds option in order to be able to read them. Read 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>. 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N. 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_FS 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)" 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP). 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>. 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies. 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds only be able to read these file systems. 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called qnx4. 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it: 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig QNX4FS_RW 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)" 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems. 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds It's currently broken, so for now: 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer N. 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSV_FS 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support" 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds partitions. 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is a 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse, 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds available via FTP (user: ftp) from 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>). 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems; 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-) 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds (but you need NFS file system support obviously). 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 12431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds the System V file system in 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>. 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds sysv. 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "UFS file system support (read only)" 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V 12611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from 12631da177e4SLinus Torvalds these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the 12641da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the 12651da177e4SLinus Torvalds file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information. 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds READ-ONLY supported. 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds you need NFS file system support obviously). 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tar" or preferably "info tar"). 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds recode ("info recode") for this purpose. 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called ufs. 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N. 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig UFS_FS_WRITE 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)" 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand. 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Network File Systems" 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_FS 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS file system support" 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 1305b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO. 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below. 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also. 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfs. 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS" 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds the net: netboot, available from 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot, 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>. 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what all this is about, say N. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V3 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 client support" 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3 of the NFS protocol. 13451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1348b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_V3_ACL 1349b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1350b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFS_V3 1351b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1352b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1353b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with 1354b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option. 1355b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 1356b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher If unsure, say N. 1357b7fa0554SAndreas Gruenbacher 13581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_V4 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds version 4 of the NFS protocol. 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFS_DIRECTIO 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds no alignment restrictions. 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds feature. 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c. 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds opened with the O_DIRECT flag. 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFS server support" 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds select LOCKD 13991da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select EXPORTFS 1401a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V3_ACL || NFSD_V2_ACL 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds faster. 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds In either case, you will need support software; the respective 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFS section. 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N. 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1425a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V2_ACL 1426a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1427a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD 1428a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 14291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V3 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv3 server support" 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y. 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1436a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFSD_V3_ACL 1437a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension" 1438a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD_V3 1439a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select NFSD_V2_ACL 1440a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher help 1441a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX 1442a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should 1443a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the 1444a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N. 1445a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 14461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_V4 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NFSD_TCP 1450a55370a3SNeilBrown select CRYPTO_MD5 1451a55370a3SNeilBrown select CRYPTO 1452b84c2157SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4. 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFSD_TCP 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support" 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here. 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y. 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROOT_NFS 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Root file system on NFS" 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk), 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds at boot time. 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most people say N here. 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCKD_V4 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPORTFS 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1493a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_ACL_SUPPORT 1494a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher tristate 1495a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher select FS_POSIX_ACL 1496a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 1497a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacherconfig NFS_COMMON 1498a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher bool 1499a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher depends on NFSD || NFS_FS 1500a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher default y 1501a257cdd0SAndreas Gruenbacher 15021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNRPC_GSS 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds NFSv4. 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select SUNRPC_GSS 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_MD5 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRYPTO_DES 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism. 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_FS 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)" 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds for that. 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use a default NLS" 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_FS 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMB_NLS_REMOTE 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Default Remote NLS Option" 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "cp437" 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This setting allows you to specify a default value for which 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)" 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select NLS 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds such as Windows 9x and OS/2. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y. 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_STATS 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS statistics" 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 16261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_XATTR 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds this time. 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_POSIX 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS_XATTR 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CIFS 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enables cifs features under testing. These features 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds are highly experimental. If unsure, say N. 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NCP_FS 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IPX!=n || INET 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds file *server* for Novell NetWare clients. 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network. 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16861da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig" 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)" 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds replication, security model for authentication and encryption, 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds persistent client caches and write back caching. 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds no kernel support. Please read 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>. 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called coda. 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CODA_FS_OLD_API 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers" 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on CODA_FS 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17141da177e4SLinus Torvalds A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds new realms implementation. 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds However this new API is not backward compatible with older 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds cache manager then say Y. 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds For most cases you probably want to say N. 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AFS_FS 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds# for fs/nls/Config.in 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (Experimental)" 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select RXRPC 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access. 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more intormation. 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig RXRPC 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Partition Types" 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17441da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/partitions/Kconfig" 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17481da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "fs/nls/Kconfig" 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1752